Dictionary Entry
duress
duress is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
- 2noun
The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
- 3transitive verb
To subject to duress.
- 4noun
compulsory force or threat
"confessed under duress"
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